No./1 How to orchestrate a stellar performance
Cate Blanchett and director Todd Field on blistering drama TÁR
[EDITED BY BETH WEBB]
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Sophie Kauer as Olga Metkina and Cate Blanchett as Lydia Tár;
Blanchett plays a world-class orchestra conductor;
IN AN EARLY scene in Tár, Cate Blanchett’s Lydia Tár, a world-renowned conductor, is read a long list of her accomplishments during an onstage interview with The New Yorker. It’s a woman at the top of her game playing a woman at the top of her game. One of them is about to experience a very public fall from grace, while the other, fresh off a Best Actress win at the Venice Film Festival, is probably on her way to winning her third Oscar.